Ambassadors go forth...

Ambassadors go forthA tail of three and a bit Ambassadors

...and the new features ofConfluence 4 and JIRA 4.4

Three Amigos

BenHelenOlle

ValerieSam

Where have we come from?Developing

Team leading

Coaching

Training

BloggingTweeting

Conferencing

CommunityUser groups

Video interviews

Mission ImpossibleGet the world hooked on Atlassian...

...without selling anyone anything...

So how do we do this???

Our not so secret weapons...

Managing the ambassadors...Daily task list

Weekly reports90 day goals

Events planningMeetings... and more meetings..

Avoid drowning in email..Expediting and dealing with issues...

Could be very boring...

Use the power of JIRA... Luke

May the JIRA be with you...Ambassador project

Simplified issue type to Task

Enabled Greenhopper plugin- shipped with JIRA by default from now on

JIRA 4.x has become easier...Improved overview

Easier installWell managed updates

Unified overviewSimple editing of issues

Autocomplete JIRA queriesVisual Workflow designer

Greenhopper bundled

www.youtube.com/user/GoAtlassian

JIRA admin unified overview

K.I.S.S.Use simplest workflow possible

Only create issue types you need

Use labels to help you find issues- common labels could become issue types

...

Our workflow does what??See what your BOfH has done to your workflow

“Can we make a quick change to our project?”“Sorry, Dave did that workflow... I dont know what

it does... He is not back until next week!”

Visual workflow editor to the rescue !!

Workflow editor saves the day...

JIRA queries now not so scary...

Easier searching and reportingType in what you want

JIRA suggests the right things you want

Save your query...… use those in Confluence

Report on specific weekType with help from auto-complete:

project = AMBASSADORS AND assignee = jstevenson AND fixVersion = "Week 31" ORDER BY priority DESC

Press the search button!

Get URL for XML feed:https://extranet.atlassian.com/jira/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-

xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+AMBASSADORS+AND+assignee+

%3D+jstevenson+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%22Week+31%22+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&tempMax=100

Some feel JIRA is still fiddly...Too many fields

Lots of irrelevant information

Not sure what to fill in...

Not a great user experience!

New way to edit an issueSimplified issue editing form

Drag and drop to customise your own form

Only add what’s important

Raise issues quickly...

Editing an issue is simple...

Greenhopper is even easier...

Greenhopper for daily task list

Picture of greenhopper wallboard as appetiser...

Even Darth uses Greenhopper

If you still think JIRA and Greenhopper is too much...

…show your issues in Confluence

JIRA New features demo

Confluence 4

Communicate with confidenceCommunicate with Confluence

Ambassadors have their own space

Everyone has free run (except for deleting the whole space !!)

Audit trail keeps people honest

Really drives collaboration

Telling people who I amMy Confluence home page

Contact details / my location

Recent documents / edits

Planning activities

Making daily stand-ups more funTalk about things we are learning

Help each other priorities

Identify dependant activities

Talk to each other as human beings...

Boring status meetings... ...just say no

JIRA Issues gadget for ConfluenceShow any list of issues you can in JIRA

Uses a XML source

URL easy to use...

Work in progress

What I did last week...

Report on specific weekType in:

project = AMBASSADORS AND assignee = jstevenson AND fixVersion = "Week 31" ORDER BY priority DESC

Press the magic button!

Get URL for XML feed:https://extranet.atlassian.com/jira/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-

xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+AMBASSADORS+AND+assignee+

%3D+jstevenson+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%22Week+31%22+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&tempMax=100

Confluence for 90 day goalsSimple to create tables

Emoticons to make goal status easy to see

Could also use status field

Simple to understand for a wider audience

Wiki Markup is dead, long live Wiki Markup

Seperate Wiki markup editor is deceased

Wiki markup is still alive and kicking and better than ever

New editor in town

Confluence editor demo

Team Calendars

People related events - Holidays (yay!)

Events – lets get planning

JIRA tickets – oh, we are launching today, yay !

Sync with Google (iCal) Calendars

Team calendar demo

More new stuff in Confluence 4Context sensitive menus

Table editor toolbar

Embedded powerpoint presentations

Macro browserMacro keyboard shortcuts

Status Macro

The big pictureUsing JIRA project dashboard for overview

Thinking of usuing JIRA wallboard plugin

Back to dogfood-ing...Raising issues with Confluence

“Give Feedback” button

BonfireRaise issues quickly in JIRA

Bonfire

What's next for the AmbassadorsCustomer interviews / case studies

Online promotion, blogging, tweeting

Conferencing and community events

University outreach – bridging the skills gap

Atlassian user groups

A small tour around Europe !!

UK Atlassian user groupsBath / Bristol group starting soon

Possible Reading groupLondon kick-off planned

Looking for willing customers to run groups

Your user group needs you!www.atlassian.com/about/community/

Taking beer to the community

… and cool T-Shirts

#LondonAPE

JIRA 4.4.xEasy admin, workflow editor, simple issue form, easy upgrade,

ConfluencePowerful new editor, team calendars, gadgets, Email mentions

Atlassian user groups need you

Ambassadors marching all over Europe

Thank you

For everything else there is

www.atlassian.com

blogs.atlassian.com

answers.atlassian.com

GoAtlassian YouTube channel

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